The Essence of Taoist Health Care Culture

The fundamental purpose of Taoist health care is to eliminate all external factors from interfering with life activities and to seek liberation of body and mind. Therefore, respect for nature has become the basic principle of Taoist health care, the Taoist point of view, the order of change in the natural world as the law, abandon the human rational factors, in health care to take action in accordance with nature, you can maintain health, prolong life.

Lao Tzu said, "Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the sky is the law of the road, the road is the law of nature", everything should be in accordance with the laws of nature, not against the reason of heaven and earth. The initial state of man is the closest to nature. The state is closest to nature, so he proposed to return to the simple and true, the baby pushed as "to the simple" "to the true" ideal standard, health to return to the baby state as the highest standard.

Zhuang Zi believes that the unity of man and nature is the highest state of health, and advocates the elimination of all man-made deliberate pursuit, that "nothing", "nothing has been", "absolute freedom" is the fundamental way to achieve the unity of man and nature. The fundamental way to achieve the unity of man and heaven.